she left for Munich. It would be a pity for me to lose sight of her. She is a very good person. I don't know if we'll ever have the chance to see each other. All my acquaintances from Petersburg have been scattered to all corners, so you don't know who is where. At first we still wrote, but now the correspondence is gradually dying out. It's difficult to correspond; you can never talk about anything properly, and when you try... the result looks like mutual misunderstanding.

How Cuba is living, I don't know—she writes little, one can only see that her nerves are worn out. But I have written so much that there's no room left for Volodya, so I must finish. I embrace you warmly, M. Al., and Anyuta. Mama sends her regards to everyone. All the best.

Nadya

22/VIII. 99.

I was very glad, Manyasha, reading that you have finally received Bernstein for me, whom I have been awaiting and still await with great impatience. They were already writing to me from Yakutsk that they are reading Bernstein, but here we still don't have it!! And the more all sorts of blockheaded bourgeois and "young" (in all senses) non-bourgeois shout about him and make use of him, the more necessary it becomes to become acquainted as soon as possible with this "newest" hero of opportunism.

On 9. X. 99 new style there will be a Parteitag* in Hanover and they will be discussing Bernstein. I would very much like to have reports on it. Please try to get them for me: this is quite possible by one of the following ways. Write to your acquaintances (I would also ask Anya to do this) abroad to send those issues of the newspaper in which the report will appear, even if it's the "Frankfurter Zeitung," which circulates in Russia. If your acquaintances refuse to send either "Vorwarts" or "Frankfurter Zeitung," then would it be possible to subscribe to "Frankfurter Zeitung" through the Moscow post office for October? (I know that one can subscribe for 3 months, but that is too much and too expensive, 4 rubles 70 kopecks. Is it possible to subscribe for just one month?)

* - party congress. Ed.

If you yourself happen to be abroad then, please buy these issues and send them to me.

I am not giving you any literary commissions, since I am not writing anything now and do not intend to write. But if you go abroad, I will probably ask you to look for some good old books for me.

I shake your hand. V. U.

in Podolsk

in the journal

Sent from the village of Shushenskoye

First published in 1929

"Proletarskaya Revolyutsiya" No. 8-9

Printed from the manuscript